corvusxiii
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Shame, I was enjoying the 0-0.
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1 hour ago, Wiltshire Warrior Dragon said:
Curses, covusxiii, you've rumbled me!
The quarterly magazine NarrowBoat always has the strapline 'The Inland Waterways Heritage Magazine'. The latest (Spring) edition has a photo-feature of barges at Goole Docks; the colour photos date from 1966. One of the photo captions describes 'a tug towing a train of nearly 30 pans..' and then adds that they were "..better known as Tom Puddings further along the A&C", which suggests a more localised use of that term than I had realised.
Incidentally, two editions back of the same magazine (Autumn, 2024) had both more 1966 colour pictures from Yorkshire - this time in Selby - and some much older, black and white photos of traffic on the eastern section of the A&C, between Knottingley and Goole. There is also an official, A&C Navigation picture (in effect, a detailed sketch that has been annotated) describing how the hoists at places like Goole Docks worked, to unload the contents of Tom Puddings into larger, sea-going boats. Maybe your barge unloader was like that.
I've just Googled- Barge Unloader Ferrybridge.
A feast of Tom Puddings and big machinery!!!
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24 minutes ago, Wiltshire Warrior Dragon said:
I think Tom Pudding, the legendary Castleford winger of the Northern Union era, used to travel along the Aire & Calder Navigation to get to home ties.
I used to work at Ferrybridge C power station on the Barge Unloader which would lift a 160 tonne barge out of the river and tip the coal into a hopper. The said barges were called Tom Puddings.
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In the 'Waiting Room' just now.
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3 minutes ago, Harry Stottle said:
Time to turn off, any chance that the game could be competitive as just been spoiled.
Any feeble signs of life in this game have been killed off by the Moral Highground. Disappointing.
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Ok, I get that a well crafted and skilled 'laying on' that lasts an age wins games and need not be penalised and a very much quicker ptb may well be penalised but slow ptb's do suck the life out of the game as a spectacle for me. Messy ptb's don't help either. Further Moaning available on request.
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8 minutes ago, Gooleboy said:
Hands up if you remember Ottawa!
Very Good!
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5 minutes ago, MZH said:
I'm mainly watching Saints v Rovers but I've flicked over a few times to see how this one is going. Compared to that game or the one last night its like 2 different sports tbh.
Are Cas that good then?
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I've noticed that people Love their Air Fryer in a way the never do their Microwave. Interesting.
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10 minutes ago, Gerrumonside ref said:
I’ve got a Tower Xpress 5 in 1 air fryer that cost £50 that I would definitely recommend too. It’s the only air fryer I’ve ever had, basically one big mini oven compartment with a number of lattice metal trays and a standard oven tray for the bottom. It is especially good for meat/fish/chicken and also frozen chips/roast potatoes, basically everything.
My favourite combo is now cooking seasoned fillet steak on one level with frozen thick cut chips below it on another. The steak comes out medium rare and tender while juice drips through the lattice tray and onto the nicely cooked thick cut chips dripping style. I used to faff with getting frying pans very hot, oil, sealing the meat etc, but now with one turn of the meat I can get an equal or better result in the air fryer.
It’s quicker, more energy efficient and makes the regular oven less of a used thing. It’s especially good at Christmas or for a complex meal for giving a quick reliable heating option to be used in tandem with your other appliances. I was skeptical that air fryers were a bread maker type fad, but they really are good and save a lot of time and stress, but with nicer taste results than the microwave.
Yes, I'm thinking it should be another fad, another appliance gathering dust somewhere but if anyone opens their gob on the subject it's clear I'm just plain wrong. I'll check out the names.
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I'm someone who will happily microwave spuds, veg and sausages but Spouse is not overly impressed tbh. Any advice/comments etc on one of those new air fryer thingies?
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Just now, Just Browny said:
It could be a Mastermind specialist subject this: what combination of subscriptions do you need to watch the rugby and it actually work.
I could half remember something was required but HD+ was beyond me.
There are three possible pubs I need to check out for HD+, then hope football/darts etc isn't on and then hope the landlord isn't a Rah Rah. Sorted.
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3 minutes ago, Chrispmartha said:
It’s the same for any sport in the red button including football.
The biggest issue is not being able to record them or watch back full replays.
Ive bought a SL+ sub to get round it
Remind me (again) about the Sky Red Button option- can all Sky receivers 'do' the Red Button or are there other technicalities to spoil my Thursday night.
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13 minutes ago, JohnM said:
Nothing.
Being a Cas fan this is like missing SOO!
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3 minutes ago, burningmuscles said:
The red button
Yes, just dropped on. Thought that was a different thing somehow. Hadn't realised that SL was so far down the food chain. Cheers.
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Disaster! The local Rugby pub is closed tonight so went to another pub and asked politely if he could show SL.
SS+ is tennis or something but no SL listed anywhere on the Guide.
What are we missing?
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Glad the Ref penalised that epic laying on by cynical Cas.
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2 hours ago, HawkMan said:
Watching Aston Villa v Liverpool tonight, the fans of both teams seem so passionate. They holler and cry with jubilation as the goals go in, in a very Important match. It seems so important to them and they're having a great time, or are they?
Are you saying the poor dolts have been tricked by hype? IF you could talk to them would you say, " look at the stuff on the pitch it's rubbish, wake up idiots, you shouldn't be enjoying it because it's phoney?"
No, that's a bit extreme but yeah, take the hype/people away and we're stood with two men and a dog.
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7 hours ago, Luke HKR said:
Partly, football games aren't very interesting in my opinion (look at spurs/man utd). But because of the advertising of the sport, the international game, the marketing, the premier league, and the money, people want to be involved in the sport. In my opinion, rugby league is a better game on the pitch, but we don't have the other aspects to make it more in the people's eyes.
OK, here's a thing. About 3/4 ish years ago Italy(I think) beat England in some soccer final widely shown on TV which my neighbour showed it at his place to many people.
Can't imagine another sport where this might be replicated.
After the match I suggested that if the very same match was to be magically reanacted on a local pitch the next day then no one would be bothered. Non of us present then would be present the following Sunday.
OK, no one actually argued the toss but I was clearly a ###### for even saying such a thing.
Hype over content doesn't even touch the sides. I see many correspondences in the above posts. Interesting.
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Tbh I've not read any of the previous posts but I remember Stevo saying that teams not paying up to the Salary Cap should be Fined. Not convinced of the logic here.
I remember that teams going bust should be Fined. Not sure of the logic here.
Salford lose 82-0 due to....? On BBC nation wide terrestrial TV. Not sure.....
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3 hours ago, DavidM said:
Just looking back to last year and the press release talking about the clampdown at the ptb and there must be a genuine attempt to play it with the foot.
in one and a bit games it’s depressing to see that’s already been forgottenUnless the ball is clearly played with the foot in which case it is obviously a penalty. Obviously........... but I don't know why....
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I'm glad Cas have got all the decisions or else imagine the embarrassment caused by the clearly superior opposition. Ish.
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2 hours ago, Lucy_1873 said:
Do they often start slow as players are still missing some competive match sharpness?
In my day.... say late 80's into the 90's it seemed to be 3,4 or 5 weeks before things got properly warmed up and reached running temperature.
Then sometime this century things were pretty much hot from the start.
This match would be pretty much unthinkable at any time of the season when I was a pup, nevermind first match.
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Thing is Cas had a couple of chances where it looked easier to score than not. That they didn't was great work from Bradford and it swung the game in their favour.
And Well Done Bradford No.10, stayed involved and forced the last try out wide for the conversion.
Another yard or two and .....?
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Sat 19th Apr: SL: Leigh Leopards v Warrington Wolves KO 13:30 (BBC/SS+/SL+)
in The General Rugby League Forum
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How many TV cameras do the BBC own do we think? Perhaps we could have a whip round for them.